Showing papers in "Journal of Aging Studies in 2006"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the sandwich generation, i.e., those who oftentimes care for both younger and older generations, and personalize the consequences of this demographic shift and introduce possible solutions for lessening its effects.

TL;DR: This paper conducted focus groups with older adults who had recently stopped driving to understand factors that influence driving decisions and to identify approaches that could help ease the transition to a non-driving status, and found that the decision to stop driving is reluctantly made by elders on their own or after prompting from others.

TL;DR: The authors explored the meaning of home for older women living in a congregate housing complex in a Southeastern city of the United States who have been more or less successful in making it a home.

TL;DR: The authors found that husbands and wives both cross gender boundaries in order to give care to their spouses, and that such traversing presents different challenges to each spouse and that maintaining the gender identities of their spouses is an implicit recognition of the other as a gendered being and importance of masculinity or femininity to personal identity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of how we account for "older people" talking as if they are not older people, and use positioning theory to examine what is said.

TL;DR: This paper used ten focus groups drawn from Asian American communities representing different national origins (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) to examine the factors shaping attitudes toward Alzheimer's disease in general, and treatment-seeking in particular, that may constitute barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment of AD among Asian Americans of various ages and cultural backgrounds.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored positive and negative aspects of Chinese caregivers' experience, specifically, caregiving social reward as well as depression, and found that caregivers who were unemployed and had poor self-rated health reported higher levels of depression.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between gender and heterosexual partnering in midlife, using survey data from 1240 women and men aged 40 to 59 and found that older ages are associated with lower numbers of sexual partners for both genders, and larger proportions of women report having no partners, and at earlier ages than men.

TL;DR: It is found that elders and family members generally had high evaluations of institutions' quality in terms of facility, medical, and direct care conditions and gender was found to be related to willingness to place elderly parents in an institution.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a narrative analysis of 12 lifestory interviews done by three interviewers (4 interviews each: 2 with males; 2 with females) with people 80 and older living in a largely rural area of Eastern Canada.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report findings from an ethnographic study that followed nearly 100 dyads of people with Alzheimer's disease and those who cared for them for more than 1 year.

TL;DR: Care management as an activity that regulates the distribution of society's resources for home care is explored, which focuses on interaction in assessment meetings, which are part of the pl ...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine changes in identity that occur during their search for employment and find that once participants perceive they have been labelled "old" by others (i.e., potential employers and personnel at older worker programs) they begin to define themselves as "old", and become susceptible to identity degradation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on data generated by life history interviews with 22, university based, young athletes to explore their narrative maps of aging, and suggest that these young athletes constitute a vulnerable group in relation to the aging process.

TL;DR: In this phenomenological Study, hospital admission was a time of crisis and possible transition for the relatives, and the encounter with the professional system added to the relatives' emotional and physical burden.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effects of reciprocal and non-reciprocal patterns of exchange on beliefs about intergenerational responsibilities in parent-child and stepparent-stepchild relationships and found that normative responsibilities to assist kin were greater than to assist step-kin, and normative responsibility to assist an older family member were greater when patterns of exchanges were reciprocal than when they were not.

TL;DR: This article found that there is a difference between being old and feeling old, and the way in which the experience of growing into advanced old age is regarded has also been found to play an important role.

TL;DR: This article introduced a new materialist lens to aging-well research by distilling and synthesizing key assumptions from diverse bodies of literature, and demonstrated how this theoretical perspective may be applied to study the making of self-meaning through such later-life transitions as widowhood.

TL;DR: In-depth examination of the 10-year transition histories of these two women highlights the major erosion of autonomy with advancing frailty, illness, and relocation into supportive housing.

TL;DR: In this paper, a brief history of social security policy in Russia both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union is described and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the model, with particular attention to the way in which it may disadvantage women and low-wage and informal sector workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to discover the cultural and linguistic variations in the definition, recognition, explanation of, and response to dementia as it is experienced in the African American community, where participant observation was combined with guided conversations with 14 African American who knew persons who had lost their minds or their minds had slipped.

TL;DR: This qualitative analysis describes the various tasks that were undertaken by family members; how family members asserted themselves in the process; how they were an outlet for possessions; the way that some possessions are shared; and implications for family's story about itself.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed the role of the dining area territorial conflicts in inclusionary and exclusionary group behaviors within senior center spaces, and found that strong self-governance of this center allowed participants to lay claim to the entire center, rather than relying on ownership of specific dining seats.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the narratives of 24 Mexican-American, elderly impoverished women in order to gain their perception of the effects of adult day care centers (ADCs) on their mental and physical wellness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered filial attachments from the perspective of the adult "child" and found that Confident Resolution and Resolved Yearning incorporated the secure attachment organisation.

TL;DR: In each facility, metaphoric kinship relationships between staff and residents compensated somewhat, but not entirely, for perceived family noninvolvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the cultural construction of dying and death in long-term care facilities and found that elders' spirituality becomes both miniaturized and expanded in the assisted living environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of facility size, ownership, chain membership, and residents' characteristics on autonomy-enhancing policies in assisted living and found that residents' disability was one of the strongest predictors of autonomyenhancement policies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study utilized Ellen Langer's theory of mindfulness to better understand how individuals who work in nursing homes apply their professional knowledge to their personal lives within the context of nursing home family caregiving, finding that professionals were more mindful than non-professionals when using their nursing home knowledge to approach staff in a nonconfrontational manner.